Randy ScansaniRandy Scansani holds a Master’s Degree in Specialized Translation and a PhD in Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies from the University of Bologna. After having worked as a freelancer MT specialist during his PhD, he is now working as in-house MT specialist at Acolad. His doctoral research focused on MT for institutional academic texts, the relevance of terminology in MT evaluation, and post-editor trust towards the MT output. His interests include improving workflows including MT, qualitative approaches to evaluating the MT output, handling terminology in MT, assessing post-editing effort and the factors influencing it.

The subject of Randy’s and Lamis Mhedhbi’s joint presentation is MT and post-editing for LSPs: a practical approach to evaluating quality.